289 Quotes by Sloane Crosley

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

I use Ole Henriksen eye gel when I think of it, and go for facials when spa gift certificates appear as a professional thank-you or in a gift bag. Once ensconced in a facialist's chair, I let myself be coaxed into all sorts of treatments, because I'm there already, so why not?

It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.